AUSTIN – Texas State's Tanner Hill hit his third home run in as many games Tuesday night, but it wasn't enough to get past the Texas Longhorns. Texas beat the Bobcats, 7-3, benefitting from a few home runs as well. With the loss, Texas State falls to 18-21-1 on the year.
 
Like the last meeting between Texas and Texas State, the Bobcats went up, 2-0, early, and it may have been enough to give Texas State an edge if it weren't for the bottom of the first. Texas scored three runs, unearned, and it all stemmed from a close call at third base. The call went the Longhorns' way and they capitalized.
 
After Cory Geisler led off with a single to centerfield, he stole second. Granger Studdard brought him home with a double to deep left field to put the Bobcats up 1-0. Later, David Paiz kept the inning alive with a two-out walk. With two runners on base and two outs, Ben McElroy knocked a hit straight up the middle to plate Studdard for the second run of the game.
 
The Longhorns answered in the bottom of the inning. The first three batters reached on a hit by pitch, an error and a safe fielder's choice on a play in which Montana Parsons and David Paiz looked to have put out the lead runner. With bases loaded, Texas hit into a double play to score one run. The next run came in off a Tres Barrera triple. Then Texas loaded the bases again on two more walks before Texas State made the move to freshman Tyler Giovanoni on the mound. He walked his first batter to put Texas up, 3-2, before inducing a groundout to end the inning. Giovanoni would only allow three hits over 3.1 innings of play, walking one.
 
Texas was able to push the lead up to 5-2 with a Zane Gurwitz two-run roundtripper to left field off the foul pole in the third inning.
 
After a span of 11 consecutive Texas State batters retired, Mickey Scott, getting the start at second base, broke the streak with a walk. Unfortunately for Texas State, the Bobcats could not get him around the bases.
 
The Bobcats showed life in the sixth inning with Tanner Hill's third home run of the week and his fifth of the season, knocking one to left centerfield to close the gap to 5-3. David Paiz followed with a nice double to nearly the same spot, falling just short of the fence. With that, Texas made the team's third pitching change of the game. Texas State would eventually see five Texas pitchers in the contest. New pitcher Jon Malmin got the out the Longhorns needed to close out the top of the sixth.
 
Texas State kept Texas without a run from the fourth inning to the seventh, but in the eighth, Bret Boswell hit his first career home run to put the Longhorns up, 7-3, the eventual final score.
 
Geisler, Studdard, Hill, Paiz and McElroy were the only Bobcats to strike a hit while Parsons, Giovanoni, Blake Whitter and Braden Pearson all saw action on the mound. Whitter was the only Bobcat to notch a strikeout, finishing with two.
 
Texas State's next action will continue on the road with a Sun Belt Conference series at Troy over the weekend. Game times are set for 6 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday and 12 p.m. Sunday.